Resurgence Party

The Resurgence Party was a fascist political party in Iran that was active from 2 March 1975 to 1 November 1978. The party was founded by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi under the government of Prime Minister Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, and it had compulsory membership and dues, interfered in the political, economic, and religious concerns of people's lives, and attempted to tax bazaaris. These policies alienated many formerly apolitical Iranians, and it was the only party allowed in Iran between 1975 and 1978. The party dissolved as the Iranian Revolution gained ground, and it had 5,000,000 members at the time of its dissolution.